Hi all,

I am a current freshman at UCI majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. I want to transfer to another UC, like UCLA and/or UC Berkeley, because of a few personal reasons. Currently, I have enough credits to transfer (90 ) and I am on track to complete all of my GE's and lower division classes (by taking some CC classes as well).

However, I have heard that it is quite hard to transfer from UC to UC, especially for CS/CSE. I wanted to know if anyone has a similar experience and advice on how they transferred from UC to UC, what made their application stand out (EC's and GPA and which one matters more/which one was most influential) , what my UC essays should reflect, and given the harsh nature of UC to UC transfer how difficult or different your intended admission rates were.

Logistics aside, I wanted to ask you guys how I would go about transferring to another school. If anyone has a success story or any experience transferring from UCI to another UC or private please share if you are comfortable. I do not want to go to a community college either as my asian parents despises them and I am commuting from their home. What should I do now to start, I mean if I do go about transferring this is going to be senior year 2.0 but this time I'm applying to college in a college.